Posted on 10/11/2022 10:21:06 AM PDT by fwdude
One YouTuber learned the hard way that towing a heavy load is more complicated with an electric truck than a gasoline-powered one.
In a recent video on his Hoovie's Garage channel, Tyler Hoover put the towing capability of his Ford F-150 Lightning to the test — and he called the experience a "complete and total disaster." The saga illustrates one of the challenges to owning a battery-powered truck: towing range.
Hoover charged up his Lightning to 200 miles (almost all of its 230-mile range) and set out for a trip to his mechanic 32 miles away to pick up a 1930 Ford Model A and tow it home. As soon as Hoover set out pulling an empty trailer, the Lightning's range started "dropping like a stone."
In the end, the 64-mile journey sucked up 150 miles of range from the Lightning's battery.
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“The truck towing 3,500 pounds can’t even go 100 miles,” he said. “That is ridiculously stupid. This truck can’t do normal truck things.”
Physics isn’t woke.
Electric vehicles will be “great” if we get into a war!!!!!!!!!
He should have towed the F-150 with the Model A.
That must be why, as I read yesterday, the armed forces are training troops to live off the land instead of relying on food supplies being delivered.
I envision the scene from apocalypse movies where the truck is being pulled by horses of course until they are banned. You serfs must not have mobility
Replace "is more complicated" with "is much less likely to be possible".
F-150 electric? "Give me all you want. I'll let you know when I've had enough. And that right quick."
All you need to know about electric cars is that the Tesla road side assistance fleet is comprised of gas-powered Ford F150s.
FR EV proponents in 3,...2,.... 😎✌
Title softballs it calling it one of the “drawbacks of electric trucks” But the man who did the review calls it a “complete total disaster”.
Hmmm....
EV Trucks are for virtue signaling morons, not work.
Yeah, no sh!t. That's because it's a golf cart with a truck bed. Anyone who's gone golfing with a few 300 pound guys with bags, learns this by about the 16th hole. .
Its not a “disaster”.
Its been something many people predicted and/or knew was going to happen when a battery powered vehicle is used to tow extra weight.
Its why just about every EV didn’t come with towing capability and warned owners it wasn’t a vehicle that could be used for towing.
In Fords case of the truck, structurally its a vehicle thatis made for towing, and as his experiment showed, is able to do so, albeit with very disappointing battery drain.
That said, his truck version was the one with the smallest battery pack/range available, so factor that in, not as disastrous for the bigger battery pack versions. Further it wasn’t fully charged so he would have had more range left if it was fully charged. The truck is also, by itself, a heavier EV so factor that too in terms of how fast it can eat up power. But its a truck that can actually tow significant weight, which is why its built heavier, to handle that.
Theres no question extra tow weight will burn through battery power and reduce range. But its not unexpected. It certainly isn’t the range a gas f150 can get towing the same thing.
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LOL! LOL!
Battery powered trucks might not be practical. ...
Pound for pound fossil fuel delivers more energy than electric batteries can store.
That’s an interesting rule of thumb: an EV at maximum load caps out at 25-30% of it’s available range.
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